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Reducing HIV Risk Among Adolescents: Evaluating HEART for Teens

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North Carolina State University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
HIV Infections

Treatments

Behavioral: HEART
Behavioral: Growing Minds

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03453515
NCState

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates an educational web-based intervention designed to increase adolescent boys' and girls' motivation and skills to engage in safer sexual behavior (HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training). Half of participants will receive HEART and half of participants will receive Growing Minds, an attention-matched control website focused on growth mindsets of intelligence and self-regulation. The ultimate goal of this work is to help youth reduce their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and to avoid unplanned pregnancies.

Full description

This study evaluates an educational web-based intervention designed to increase adolescent boys' and girls' motivation and skills to engage in safer sexual behavior (HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training). Half of participants will receive HEART and half of participants will receive Growing Minds, an attention-matched control website focused on growth mindsets of intelligence and self-regulation. The ultimate goal of this work is to help youth reduce their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and to avoid unplanned pregnancies.

Primary outcomes for this study include 1) acceptability of the program, 2) safer sex self-efficacy, and 3) safer sex intentions.

Enrollment

226 patients

Sex

All

Ages

14 to 18 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • 10th or 11th grader
  • Able to read English

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

226 participants in 2 patient groups

HEART
Experimental group
Description:
Interactive website with five modules to address safer sex motivation, knowledge, attitudes/norms, self-efficacy, and sexual communication skills. Program takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete.
Treatment:
Behavioral: HEART
Growing Minds
Other group
Description:
Attention-matched control website with five modules to address an introduction to mindsets, growth mindsets of intelligence, growth mindsets of self-control, growth mindsets of people, and an integrative summary. Program takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Growing Minds

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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